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- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- William H. Borah
- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh
- The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth
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